Blog - Josh Spector

Oops… found some hills

I’m mixing up my training schedule for the next few days. I was going to do my one long run of the week today (which actually wasn’t scheduled for today), but Elizabeth convinced me to do my long run with her tomorrow. So, today I decided to do a short, easy run. I left the…

San Diego swimming

It’s a cool, windy day in San Diego. It rained a little this morning, but it’s mostly sunny out today. I guess it’s threatening to rain this afternoon, but I swam this morning and it’s my only workout of the day. Elizabeth and her family are driving down here today, as are my grandparents. Elizabeth…

Another Encino run

This morning I got up early, took Charlie for a short walk, read for a little bit and then went for my run. Loren and I were planning to drive down to San Diego this afternoon, and I knew that if I didn’t run in the morning, it would be pretty tough to run later…

Xmas Running

Today was another run. Actually, John warned me in advance that this would be a run heavy week. This makes sense, given that I don’t have access to a bike and even swimming won’t be that easy. Today’s run was Strides and skipping, which I enjoy. It’s fun to do the sprints and because I…

California!

We’re here! We made it and survived the trip. Normally that wouldn’t be anything to really write about, but travelling cross-country on a packed plane with a squealing puppy wasn’t the most fun travel experience I’ve ever had! Anyway, we got here and it’s beautiful and we’re happy to be here and happy we brought…

Swim time trial

Today, my last real workout of this week (tomorrow’s off for travel and Sunday is a really easy run), was a 1,000 yard swim time trial. I was excited to do this for two reasons. First of all, many of my swim sessions refer to my “1,000 yard pace” and I had only vague ideas…

Double day

Man, this morning I woke up in a cloud. I was so tired. I’m still surprised I even got out of bed at all. I think it’s partly that I don’t want to get off my schedule, partly that I don’t want to be skipping workouts just because I’m a little tired or lazy, party…

Swim day

My easy week continues, with another single training session day. Today was a 2,800 yard swim, a long swim by old standards, but pretty standard right now and I have a feeling that soon 2,800 yards will seem like an easy day! It was a good swim and I’m now definitely at the point where…

Time trial

This morning I did a time trial exercise in Central Park. My intstructions were to warm up (on the ride up there), then do two laps as fast as possible, leaving nothing in the tank, then cool down on the way home. It was cold this morning, so I put on all the cold-weather gear…

An extra day off!

Last night I logged on to my training schedule and had a nice surprise. Today, instead of doing my normal long swim, I had a day off. Totally unexpected, but 100% welcome. In fact, I had to double check a couple times to make sure that I was looking at the right schedule and that…